Robert Bolling Jr (1683 - 1749)

Born 25 Jan 1683 in Charles City County, Colony of Virginia

Ancestors

Husband of Anne (Cocke) Bolling — married 27 Jan 1706 in Charles City, Charles City County, Virginia

Descendants

Died 17 Jul 1749 at age 66 in Kippax, Prince George County, Colony of Virginia

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Biography

Native Virginian

Robert Bolling, the 2nd, is the oldest son of Robert Bolling and Anne Stith. He was born 25 January 1682/3, and died in 1749. He was a surveyor in Charles City county in 1714 and a Justice of the Peace, and Burgess in 1723, 1726, and 1730. In his adult years, he lived at Cedar Level plantation in a house which in the 1990s still survived in Hopewell, Virginia.

In 1706, Robert Boilling received a grant of 1973 acres of land in Prince George County, Virginia.^[1]

• 1728 "Bouzer, Slave of Rob't Bolling, born 24th Nov'r 1728"
• 1730 "William, Slave of Rob't Bolling, born 18th Dec'r 1730"
• 1732 "Anthony Slave of Rob't Bolling, born 12 Oct'r 1732"
  • All three were "bap't Dec'r 26, 1732"^[2] Image 242 of 1018

Marriage

He married 27 January 1706, Anne, daughter of Richard and Anne (Bowler) Cocke.

Children

Their children were:

1. Elizabeth,1709, m. James Mumford.^[3]
2. Anne, m. John Hall.^[4]
3. Lucy Cocke Bolling, m. Peter Randolph of Chatsworth.^[4]
4. Martha Cocke Bolling, m. Richard Eppes, Burgess from Chesterfield.^[4]
5. Jane, m, Hugh Hall.^[4]
6. Susannah, b. 1728, m. Alexander Bolling, b. Prince George County.^[4]
7. Robert, m. Mary Marshall Tabb.^[4] "Rob't, son of Maj. Rob't & Anne Bolling born 30th Octob'r Last Bap't 13th Nov: 1720".^[5]
8. Mary Ann, m. Wm. Starke.^[6][7]

Death and Legacy

Original burial at Kippax Plantation, Prince George County, Colony of Virginia. The name of the Plantation is inscribed on his Grave Marker Stone which was prepared when they moved his grave to Blandford Cemetery, Petersburg, Petersburg City, Virginia. His son & son's wife Mary M. Bolling's names are on the Same Marker Stone in a Mausoleum.^[8]

Slaves

Robert Bolling distributed his slaves as follows:^{[citation needed]}

• Elizabeth Mumford: (slaves) Jack, Puncso (after his daughter Elizabeth dies, these slaves are given to his grandson Thomas Bolling Mumford and his heirs forever)
• Elizabeth Mumford: (slaves) Guy, Luebonds, Jacob (after his daughter Elizabeth dies, these slaves are given to his grandson Edward Mumford and his heirs forever)
• Wife Ann Bolling: (slaves) Jammey, Ned, Will with his wife Angelica and her children, Abram, Ballica, Doctor, Sue, Phillis Young, Cletty, Hannah, Patience, Tris, Young Abram, Charles.

Research Notes

Burgess

Was service 1723, 1726, 1730, OR 1723-1726, 1730?

Served from 1723-1734^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ Crozier, William Armstrong, ed. “ Price George County, Book 9.” Article. In Virginia County Records Volume VI, 186–86. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., 1971. http://www.ancestraltrackers.net/va/resources/virginia-county-records-v6-p1.pdf.
2. ↑ *#Robert, born 12 June 1720.
3. ↑ Marriages of some Virginia Residents 1607-1800, by Dorothy Ford Wulfeck. Vol II, Part II, Surnames Mi-N, Page 76. Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD 1986
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5} Genealogies of Virginia Families From the Virginia Magazine of History & Biography Voll II, Cl-Fi, Genealogy of the Cocke Family in Virginia, Page 138. Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore 1981
5. ↑ Virginia Births and Christenings, 1584-1917; database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VR5Y-K1D : 28 January 2020), image 238 of 1018; Robt. Bolling in entry for Mason Bolling, 1724.
6. ↑ History of Bristol Parish in Genealogy of the Cocke Family in Virginia prepared by James C. Southall published in Genealogies of Virginia Families from The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
7. ↑ "The Starke Family." The William and Mary Quarterly 4 (April 1, 1896): 270-72. Accessed December 31, 2017. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/1915467.
8. ↑ Mandy G., (Aug 04, 2008). Find A Grave: Memorial #28777161 for Robert Bolling, Jr.
9. ↑ A History of the Virginia House of Delegates, Virginia House of Delegates Clerk's Office, 2024 https://history.house.virginia.gov/members/1339 NB: database information compiled for the 400th Anniversary of the Virginia Legislature in 2019

See also:

• "Historical and Genealogical Notes", in William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 5 no. 4 (Apr 1897), p. 275. Robert Bolling jr's note on a flyleaf.
• Descendants of Anne Cocke and Robert Bolling in Genealogy of the Cocke Family in Virginia prepared by James C. Southall published in Genealogies of Virginia Families from The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, five volumes.
• Voorhis, Manning C., (Oct 1936) "Bollingbrook." The William and Mary Quarterly. Omohundro Institute, JSTOR.org (Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 545-553).
• E. Jay Stith, Brøderbund Software, Inc., World Family Tree Vol. 1, Ed. 1, (Release date: November 29, 1995), "CD-ROM," Tree #5156, Date of Import: Jan 16, 1999. (1995), "Electronic," Date of Import: Feb 2, 1999.
• Library of Virginia --- Will dated 23 January 1747 Will Proved [He died 1749] Ac20076, pp. 1-4 [Personal Papers, Bolling] --- (see photos).
• Colonial Virginia Register, pages 104-107.